Related Terms. 1  annual gross income. 2  exclusion ratio. 3  gift tax. 4  creditable coverage. 5  annual exclusion. 6  mutually exclusive investment decisions. 7  foreign housing exclusion. 8  mutual exclusion doctrine. 9  low exercise price option (LEPO). 10  foreign earned income exclusion.
Methaqualone was first synthesized in India in 1955 by scientists trying to find a cure for malaria. The drug was ineffective against the disease, but not as a central nervous system depressant â and if a user could resist its sedative effects, a user could get high.
a nonbarbiturate sedative-hypnotic substance, C 1 6 H 1 4 N 2 O, used to induce sleep: also widely used as an illicit drug. Origin of methaqualone. 1960-1965. 1960-65; meth(yl) + -a- of uncertain derivation + qu(in)a(zo)l(in)one (see quinazoline, -one)